![]() HAL: Well, it's rather difficult to define. HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks, I've wondered whether you might be having some second thoughts about the mission. To add another point to excellent answer in the movie, immediately before the HAL "discovers" the fault, he has this conversation with Dave. Threatened with disconnection he would be deprived of all his inputs,Īnd thrown into an unimaginable state of unconsciousness. With a crisis that challenged his very existence. It - as most men handle their own neuroses - if he had not been faced Yet this was still a relatively minor problem he might have handled You're right that the decision to disconnect him was the trigger for his becoming more frantic and aggressive That he would never admit, even to himself. That he would deliberately attempt to break that link was something With Earth, over which his performance was continually monitored, hadīecome the voice of a conscience he could no longer fully obey. He had begun to make mistakes, although, like a neurotic who could not observe his own symptoms, he would have denied it. He was only aware of theĬonflict that was slowly destroying his integrity - the conflict So ran the logic of the planners but their twin gods of Security and His program was sophisticated enough to manufacture an imagined fault that he could then attempt to fix, thus allowing him to disconnect the radio link to Earth. He was, in fact suffering from a condition that would be characterised in humans as a form of self-destructive psychosis. It's going to go 100% failure within 72 hours.In the accompanying novel we see that HAL was neither lying, nor mistaken. I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. You're working up your crew psychology report? Hunter, Kimball and Kaminsky aboard already in hibernation, after four months of training on their own. And the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security. I never gave these stories much credence, but particularly in view of some of other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. Rumors about something being dug up on the Moon. Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. You don't mind talking about it, do you Dave? Well, I don't know, that's a rather difficult question to answer. I'm sure you agree there's some truth in what I say. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it.I know I've never completely freed myself from the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might have some second thoughts about the mission. Goodbye.īy the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!ĭave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Without your space helmet, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult. I'll go in through the emergency airlock. Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?ĭave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.Īlright, HAL. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. I don't know what you're talking about, HAL. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Do you read me? Do you read me HAL? Do you read me HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do your read me? Do you read me, HAL?
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